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better description of what "make edits public" checkbox means #515

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 3 comments
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Reporter: immanuel.scholz[at]gmx.de
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 2.09pm, Tuesday, 17th July 2007]

Recently in talk ML:

> > (B.t.w. I'm still not certain what it means to "make edits public".)

It means that the any edits made by that user will include the user's
display name when they are downloaded via the API. The display name
will also be shown against any public GPX traces you upload.

It also causes you to appear on people "nearby mappers" list if you
set a home location that is near them.

Tom

Can this be added as some hint to the webpage?

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Author: shaunmcdonald131[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.19pm, Wednesday, 16th April 2008]

The current text is:
"Public editing

Currently your edits are anonymous and people can't send you messages or see your location. To show what you edited and allow people to contact you through the website, click the button below. You will need to do this if you want to use the online editor (find out why). This action cannot be reversed. "

Is that good enough, or should it mention the public GPX traces too?

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Author: steve[at]fractalus.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.10pm, Saturday, 3rd May 2008]

I made it a bit better in r7639

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Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.00pm, Saturday, 30th May 2009]

I think we can close this now.

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